2013 National Book Award Finalists Announced

Oct 16, 2013

The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced this morning on Morning Joe. Fiction nominees are Rachel Kushner, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thomas Pynchon, James McBride, and George Saunders. All but Kushner are published by Penguin Random House. In all, the combined company published 10 of the 20 nominees. The list contains a mix of former winners and nominees as well as authors earning their first nominations.

Four of this year’s poetry finalists are on the list for the first time, the exception being Frank Bidart, who is a three-time National Book Award Finalist (1997, 2005, and 2008) and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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